Dealing with the anguish of the war in Ukraine. An extended relative of mine, Tatiana (my cousin Victor’s daughter-in-law’s brother’s wife) sent this most inspiring essay from western Ukraine. She left Kyiv, Ukraine with her 6-month-old son Glib to get away from the rockets and mortars. She left with my cousin Victor and settled with […]
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Today, Thursday, April 14, 2022, I’d like to catch you up about the Chernihiv area in Ukraine where we work with the “Revival” Centre for Rehabilitation of Disabled Children. In the past week and a half, we’ve had a few communications with Dr. Vasyl Pasichnyk and his wife Natalia as well as through his granddaughter […]
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We have been friends with our Transcarpathian brothers in western Ukraine since 1991, the year that Ukraine became an independent country. We have helped with education, youth camps, street children, medical, dental, and more. We have traveled there many times since. Now, the people in this area who live close to the borders of Romania, […]
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March 24, 2022 Here’s the latest as of Thursday, March 24, 2022 about what I’ve found out about Chernihiv, Ukraine. This is where we have been working with the Center of Rehabilitation for Disabled Children since 1996 with founders and directors pediatrician Dr. Vasyl Pasichnyk and his wife Natalia Zenchenko who is the head neurologist […]
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People are asking us how they can help victims of the barbaric actions of Russia on the Ukrainian people. We have been working with the Ukrainian people for more than 30 years. We have helped them spiritually and economically. We have traveled to Ukraine countless times and know and love many people there. We have […]
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March 13, 2022 It is getting more difficult to communicate with some parts of Ukraine. I can still get through quite well on WhatsApp into Transcarpathia which is indicated by the red dot. This is the area where the churches we have worked with in the past are found. They are taking in refugees from […]
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We are devastated about what is happening in Ukraine right now affecting people that we know so personally and have worked with and befriended for more than 30 years. LifeNets is giving its full support to the greatest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. Bev and I have traveled to Ukraine more than […]
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With my cousin Victor Krygin I spoke with my cousin Victor in Kharkiv. Also to Mission Nazareth director Victor Pavliy as well as Ivan Yurishko in Khust. The tragic war in Ukraine continues doing what wars do: kill and destroy. That is what happening now in the biggest military action since World War II in […]
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Dear friends Victor and Beverly! We are writing this letter, as explosions are heard all the time outside the window (at a distance of about 1-2 kilometers from us, somewhere in the outskirts of the city). From the first day of this disgraceful invasion of Ukraine, our beautiful city of Cherniheiv has suffered from ballistic […]
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News from Khust in Western Ukraine My chief contact in Khust is Ivan Yurishko who I first met in 1992 in the neighboring village of Rokosova. We have been friends for more than 30 years. His son Vlad was a student at ABC in 2018. Vlad has returned to Ukraine and is now married. I […]
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